Stamp-cylinder seal: Dual scene: Hunting scene depicting archer hunting wild goat (ibex)/Ritual scene depicting worshipper facing stylised tree (cylinder image) – Cow suckling its calf (stamp image)


Stamp-cylinder seal: Dual scene: Hunting scene depicting archer hunting wild goat (ibex)/Ritual scene depicting worshipper facing stylised tree (cylinder image) – Cow suckling its calf (stamp image)
Kategória Cylinder Seals
Description of the seal image The scene of the cylinder image depicting dual scene is framed by quadrupled line borders at the top and bottom. In the hunting scene, a half-kneeling, bearded hunter (archer) wearing a belted, fringed tunic aims his bow at a rampant wild goat (ibex). In the ritual scene, a bearded worshipper wearing a long, fringed robe stands before a stylised tree below a winged sun-disc. On the stamp seal image, a cow is shown nursing its calf. Behind them is a plant(?).
Figures, motifs/symbols - borderlines (2): quadrupled line borders at the top and bottom
- calf: suckling
- cow: nursing its calf
- hunter: archer, half-kneeling, bearded, wearing a belted, fringed tunic
- plant: uncertain
- stylised tree: inside a serrated arch
- wild goat (ibex): rampant
- winged sun-disc
- worshipper: bearded, wearing a long, fringed robe
Subcategory cylinder seal stamp cylinder
Collection Adana Archaeology Museum
Museum number 61
Culture Neo-Assyrian
Provenance excavated at Gözlükule, Tarsus in 1938
First occurence 1938 (excavation)
Archaeological context section B
Registration number 38.533
Dimensions (mm): height, diameter h: 31, h (seal design): 25.5, d: 13
Material and features "gray-green steatite, highly polished", "roche bleu verdâtre"
Style linear
Scene dual, hunting, ritual
Bibliography

Porada 1963, 350, 356 no. 6, pls. 162 and 165.



Porada, E.: "Seals". In: Goldman, H. (ed.): Excavations at Gözlü Kule, Tarsus. III: The Iron Age. Text – Plates. Princeton, New Jersey, 1963, 347–358.



Tunca 1979, 18 no. 65.



Tunca, O.: "Catalogue des sceaux-cylindres du Musée régional d’Adana". Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 3/1 (1979) 1–28.



Niederreiter – Lőrincz 2025, 116–118 fig. 29.



Niederreiter Z. – Lőrincz H.: Catalogue of Cylinder Seals in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France: Middle Assyrian and First-Millennium-BCE Seals Added to the Collection from 1909 Onward. (Antiqua et Orientalia 12 – Assyriologia 15) Budapest, 2025.